From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 8 23: 5: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F6837B405 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 23:04:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF1C44189 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 20:25:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h294PZx9016365 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 20:25:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([68.39.203.40]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HBGSAN00.46J for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 20:25:35 -0800 Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 23:25:42 -0500 Subject: Re: FYI: SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Larry Sica To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <3E68EE65.56BF740D@mindspring.com> Message-Id: <3093AC0A-51E7-11D7-A9E3-000393A335A2@mac.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 02:09 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: > IBM has 5 patents they belive SQUID infringes; that why we were > not allowed to ship SQUID on the InterJet II, due to the GPL > giving away licensing for that patent. It's also why there is > no "IBM Linux", and they always partner with a Linux company to > provide Linux for their machines, when they sell a Linux-based > solution. If SQUID or Linux ever became a threat in the hands > of a commercial competitor, they could crush them like a bug. > I didn't know about this. I understand their fear of the GPL infection thing though. This is partly why i prefer a BSDL style license myself. Good thing that patents aren't like trademarks in the enforcement aspect where you have to defend it or lose it. But this comes down to a question, have the squid people tried to settle possible patent issues with IBM? > I have a real love/hate relationship with IBM over tactics like > this: they are incredibly smart about some things, but incredibly > dumb about others. > They are like most companies, but bigger. IBM overall, at least now, seems to be not so bad to deal with at least. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message